Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 86
simple and mean. We poor menare no lords, you know, but eat that for necessitywhich others eat for wantonness, yet not to delay you,that which I ate was honeycombs, great, full, and mostpleasant, which, compelled by hunger, I ate too un-measurably and am thereby infinitely distempered. Ha, quoth… … one little part thereof I will be your servant everlasi> ingly. Sure, said the fox, uncle, you but jest with me.But jest with you, replied Bruin; beshrewmy heart then, for I am in that serious earnest, that for 64 The Animal Story Book one lick thereat you shall make me the faithfullest ofall…
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